Photoshop fun: President O-bow-ma caves to Boehner
From: Michelle Malkin
Photoshop credit: Roger B.
The kowtower-in-chief first earned his “O-bow-ma” moniker on this blog in November 2009, when he genuflected before the Japanese Emperor. Before that, he was scraping the floor in front of Saudi King Abdullah. The Apology Tour has been around the world and back.
But August 31, 2011 marks the first time I can recall that we’ve seen President Obama stoop before a GOP opponent.
It’s a milestone moment. Taste the acquiescence:
President Obama acquiesced to a request from Speaker John A. Boehner on Wednesday to move the date of his proposed address to a joint session of Congress to Thursday Sept. 8, after Mr. Boehner all but rejected Mr. Obama’s request to speak next Wednesday.
Mr. Obama had asked to deliver a much anticipated speech outlining his proposals to boost employment and the economy on Sept. 7 — the same night as a scheduled Republican presidential debate, as it happens.
Lesson for GOP: Push back fast and hard enough, and the wobbly weeble in the White House can and will fall down.
More, please.
Obama Agrees to Delay Jobs Speech
From: FOXNews.com
President Obama accepts House Speaker Boehner’s request to postpone joint session address on jobs to Sept. 8, fixing a scheduling conflict with a GOP debate the previous night and allowing more time for a security sweep.
Radical Far Left Rep. Andre Carson Stands By Outrageous Tea Party Comments
From: Gateway Pundit
Far left Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) stood by his comments today that tea party patriots want to hang blacks from trees. He made the outrageous comments during a speech last week in Florida.
Democrats can’t stand that the tea party stands between them and taxpayer dollars.
Political Ticker reported:
As members of the Congressional Black Caucus converged in Los Angeles for its final national job fair series, one of its ranking members responded to his own previous inflammatory comments in Miami about the tea party, comparing their movement to Jim Crow laws that segregated and marginalized African Americans in society.
A video surfaced Tuesday on TheBlaze.com, a website run by conservative host Glenn Beck, that shows Rep. Andre Carson, D- Indiana, who holds a leadership role in the CBC, at an August 22 event in Florida.
“Some of these folks in Congress would love to see us as second-class citizens. Some of them in Congress right now of this tea party movement would love to see you and me … hanging on a tree,” Carson said, according to the audio.
On Wednesday, Carson told CNN he stood by those remarks.
“Well, I wasn’t talking about the entire tea party. I think the tea party is absolutely right when they call for increased transparency in government, when they call for a cutback on excessive government spending. I am deeply concerned about some elements of the tea party who are extremist and who have reflected a mentality going back to the John Birch society, going back to George Wallace’s Dixiecrats,” Carson said.
Tea party officials have previously renounced characterizations that their movement is racist. Carson said he believes the vitriolic political environment has encouraged increased attacks on minority groups.
Obama Bows to Boehner: Will Hold Spending Jobs Speech on September 8
From: Gateway Pundit
Barack Obama gave in to Speaker John Boehner tonight. He’ll move his jobs speech to Thursday night September 8.
The AP reported, via Free Republic:
President Barack Obama has acceded to House Speaker John Boehner’s wishes to deliver an address on jobs and the economy to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8. The president had requested Sept. 7 for the long-anticipated speech.
In agreeing to Boehner’s schedule, Obama’s address will compete with the opening game of the National Football League season — a conflict the White House wanted to avoid.
Obama Folds: Will Hold Spending Jobs Speech on September 8
From: Gateway Pundit
Barack Obama gave in to Speaker John Boehner tonight. He’ll move his jobs speech to Thursday night September 8.
The AP reported, via Free Republic:
President Barack Obama has acceded to House Speaker John Boehner’s wishes to deliver an address on jobs and the economy to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8. The president had requested Sept. 7 for the long-anticipated speech.
In agreeing to Boehner’s schedule, Obama’s address will compete with the opening game of the National Football League season — a conflict the White House wanted to avoid.
The GOP Should Have Called Their Debate ‘Dancing with the Stars’; Update: Boehner Asks WH to Change Day of Speech; Update: White House Moves Speech to Day After GOP Debate
From: Michelle Malkin
**Written by Doug Powers
President Obama must have been pretty impressed with the quality of the lobster Brian Roberts served on the Vineyard, because his spokesman Jay Carney has graciously given NBC permission to move the start time of the GOP debate next Wednesday. This would be so the Republican debate isn’t in direct conflict with the president’s “jobs speech” that just now happens to have been scheduled for the exact same time.
According to Carney, the scheduling is just a coincidence (he really should serve fries with those whoppers).
However, the network says the start time of the GOP debate won’t be changed:
NBC News has confirmed that the Republican presidential debate will go on as scheduled despite President Obama’s request to address a joint session of Congress about his jobs plan at the same time.
[...]
“One debate of many that’s on one channel of many was not enough of a reason” to pick another date, Carney said.
The Republicans should have called the debate “Dancing with the Stars.” Why? Because then the White House might have accommodated them by moving Obama’s speech to a different time:
After some friendly negotiations, all parties agreed to a mutually acceptable time: 7:30 Eastern, which meant the speech on the military situation in Libya could be delivered — and analyzed — in time for the fans of “Dancing,” as well as other scheduled network shows, to see the shows they expected to see at their regularly scheduled times.
[...]
A White House spokesman, Joshua Earnest, sent a statement by e-mail:“The White House routinely works with the networks, as a group, in circumstances like these to find a time that’s respectful of both the networks and their audience – while ensuring that the president has the platform he needs to deliver an important message to the American people.”
And an even better reason for the White House to slide the time of an address by the president is if a network’s regularly scheduled programming revolves around, well, the president:
One of these other shows was a special on volunteerism on NBC, which featured appearances from the four living ex-presidents, as well as a taped message from Mr. Obama himself.
Update: John Boehner is asking Obama to push his “job speech” back one day to next Thursday. Something that’s been mentioned though is that the NFL season gets underway that night at 8:30 ET.
Update II: CBS News’ Mark Knoller Tweets that the White House will “accept Speaker Boehner’s invitation to address Congress on September 8th.” It was all just a big coincidental mix-up, or something…
Some will be disappointed in Obama.
**Written by Doug Powers
Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
Gay Military Mag HeadedFor Base Newsstands
From: FOXNews.com
Publication featuring LGBT soldiers will be available same day ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal goes into effect
The GOP Should Have Called Their Debate ‘Dancing with the Stars’; Update: White House Moves Speech to Following Day
From: Michelle Malkin
**Written by Doug Powers
President Obama must have been pretty impressed with the quality of the lobster Brian Roberts served on the Vineyard, because his spokesman Jay Carney has graciously given NBC permission to move the start time of the GOP debate next Wednesday. This would be so the Republican debate isn’t in direct conflict with the president’s “jobs speech” that just now happens to have been scheduled for the exact same time.
According to Carney, the scheduling is just a coincidence (he really should serve fries with those whoppers).
However, the network says the start time of the GOP debate won’t be changed:
NBC News has confirmed that the Republican presidential debate will go on as scheduled despite President Obama’s request to address a joint session of Congress about his jobs plan at the same time.
[...]
“One debate of many that’s on one channel of many was not enough of a reason” to pick another date, Carney said.
The Republicans should have called the debate “Dancing with the Stars.” Why? Because then the White House might have accommodated them by moving Obama’s speech to a different time:
After some friendly negotiations, all parties agreed to a mutually acceptable time: 7:30 Eastern, which meant the speech on the military situation in Libya could be delivered — and analyzed — in time for the fans of “Dancing,” as well as other scheduled network shows, to see the shows they expected to see at their regularly scheduled times.
[...]
A White House spokesman, Joshua Earnest, sent a statement by e-mail:“The White House routinely works with the networks, as a group, in circumstances like these to find a time that’s respectful of both the networks and their audience – while ensuring that the president has the platform he needs to deliver an important message to the American people.”
And an even better reason for the White House to slide the time of an address by the president is if a network’s regularly scheduled programming revolves around, well, the president:
One of these other shows was a special on volunteerism on NBC, which featured appearances from the four living ex-presidents, as well as a taped message from Mr. Obama himself.
Update: John Boehner is asking Obama to push his “job speech” back one day to next Thursday. Something that’s been mentioned though is that the NFL season gets underway that night at 8:30 ET.
Update II: CBS News’ Mark Knoller Tweets that the White House will “accept Speaker Boehner’s invitation to address Congress on September 8th.”
**Written by Doug Powers
Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
Boehner to WH: Why Wasn’t I Asked?
From: FOXNews.com
Boehner says the White House ignored protocol when it chose to hold Obama’s jobs speech the same night as the Republican presidential debate without asking the House Speaker first.
